What is WaaS®?

Wall as a Service® (WaaS®) is the servitisation and digitalisation of the old way of selling bricks and manual bricklaying labour separately. It enables customers to access the benefits of robotic construction such as improvements in speed, accuracy, safety and waste without needing to build it into their businesses.

Instead, WaaS® provides a fixed price single delivered service to supply the blocks and robotically construct walls onsite using its Hadrian X® robot to the precise specification of a digital architectural plan. The customer receives delivery of a higher quality structure quicker, as well as other flow-on benefits of digital construction such as more certain scheduling for customers, who can organise subsequent trades based on single data source service provision.

WaaS® is available to customers in a variety of construction sectors including Residential, Commercial and Shells.

Process

The placement of an order with one of FBR's WaaS® operating entities would typically follow this process:

  • Customer asks for quote to build walls of house(s);
  • Builder sends architectural plans to FBR, including brick specification;
  • FBR runs plans through its proprietary architectural software and delivers fixed price lump sum quote for supply and lay of walls to plans specification;
  • FBR sends fixed price quote to builder, guaranteeing price for 24 months, and provides total estimated build time;
  • Builder agrees to quote and requests date for service;
  • FBR orders bricks from local partner and arranges for delivery direct to site on specified day;
  • FBR sends Hadrian X® to site on appointed day and builds house; and
  • FBR bills for 100% of work.

Commercial Strategy

FBR is creating WaaS® operating entities around the world to deliver erected walls on demand to customers including builders, developers and government bodies.

Global WaaS® operating entities will be rapidly scaled by allowing strategic partners to buy into the WaaS® operation in that region. Funds from strategic partners will then be used to procure more Hadrian X® robots, and in some markets the strategic partner may become a manufacturer of the Hadrian X®. Maintaining 100% ownership and control of its global intellectual property and the global commercial opportunity gives FBR a monopoly position as the only enabling technology for autonomous brick and block wall construction on the planet.